Quote from Harald A. Friedl on 31. January 2020, 14:46

I am not sure if the question is heading into the right direction. Because...

Can infrastructure be sustainable, when it is getting more expensive with the growing degree of complexity? In consequence, maintainance costs are exploding...

That's, in fact, one of the highly problematic aspects of tourism as a tool to promote sustainable development (according to the UNWTO): The costs for infrastructure as roads are paid by the public, and the money lacks for covering public health costs or other important investments for the local who very rarely are taking profit from expensive highways or other kinds of infrastructure.

Off course, roads are a condition in order to allow exchange at any level, but who of the locals really need an airport? To do what? To be taken of fotographs of international tourists?

So, what exactly is sustainable infrastructure?

Quote from Adis Krdzalic on 25. February 2020, 14:35

Harry, actually you have a good point. Here, I would like to avoid the roads and explain my question: How actually can we promote local transportation to be more sustainable, or how can we promote local guest houses or hostels in order to make them ‘green’ or ‘smart’? How to optimize the use of natural ecosystems and infrastructure services?

Of course, local people are not taking profit from expensive highways and big infrastructure projects, but maybe they are always opportunities for small "infrastructure changes" that are vital to a local's economic development and prosperity?

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Quote from Harald A. Friedl on 11. August 2020, 10:07

Unfurtunately, we have more and more commercial posts here, promoting things such as professional ghost writing. I have commented this already at

https://www.tourist.fh-joanneum.at/network/topic/high-quality-paper/#postid-246

I allow myself to quote my conclusion here again:

"Using ghostwriting  is the best way to become the slave of the consuming industry, terrified by the fear of "not being adequate" instead of being inspired by the feeiling of finding your own way, your personal way - which fits to your own personality. Customers of ghostwriting services have no own personality, they are just consumers.

And this is certainly not sustainable..."

The question here is: How do we cope with the growing "invasion" of commercial comments?

Quote from Harald A. Friedl on 30. March 2021, 14:29

Well, as it seems we are deliverated from commercial intervention. Yeah, free space for constructive contributions...

Quote from Philip Ursnik Zuran on 4. April 2021, 12:50

Quote from Adis Krdzalic on 15. January 2020, 12:52

The complete Infrastructure including hotels, roads, and means of transportation needs to be sustainable.
How can we promote sustainable infrastructure in SEA countries?

Best,

Adis

Dear all,

I see this interesting threat is more than a year old and I am interested if Mr. Adis could gather some helpful information in this time which he would be prepared to share?

Best regards,

Philip

Quote from Harald A. Friedl on 8. April 2021, 11:14

Dear Philip, I am afraid that #Adis was also searching for further inputs. But we would be glad to hear about your personal ideas and perspectives as you are doing research on a region which is pretty remote, the so called "Amazon of Europe" (not that one of the richest man in the world 😉
Any ideas or theses?

Quote from Philip Ursnik Zuran on 12. April 2021, 21:36

Quote from Harald A. Friedl on 8. April 2021, 11:14

Dear Philip, I am afraid that #Adis was also searching for further inputs. But we would be glad to hear about your personal ideas and perspectives as you are doing research on a region which is pretty remote, the so called "Amazon of Europe" (not that one of the richest man in the world 😉
Any ideas or theses?

Dear Harald,

Yes indeed, I am writing my master thesis about the ''Amazon of Europe''. For anyone who does not know it, it is the first 5-country biosphere reserve in the world, which includes the countries Austria, Croatia, Hungary, Slovenia and Serbia. The transboundary reserve flows along the rivers Mura, Drava and Danube and measures more than 20.700km2.

If I understand correctly, the question of Mr Adis was how to make public transport as well as personal homes more sustainable and of course how to make this state of sustainability more attainable?

Well, I will allow myself to share my thoughts on this matter. I want to emphasize that I am by no means an expert in sustainability, yet I like to indulge myself with this topic.

From what I could gather, there are many variables that are important to such an idea. Many things need to be considered in order to produce the wished-for outcome. Of course, there are some which are widely know like trying to reduce the amount of energy used or increased efforts of nature protection and conservation. But what seems most important to me is the human and his actions alone. Therefore I have only 3 words to say which are crucial to attaining the goal. Communication, communication, COMMUNICATION.

It is important to communicate WHY some changes are being made or WHY it is important to use more public transport. In my opinion, it is one of the most vital aspects that need to be taken into account when trying to achieve sustainability.

I have also taken the liberty to find some scientific journals which furthermore emphasize the importance of communication in this field and take on different approaches as well as tackle various problems.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2351978917300719

https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/5/7/2976

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-94-007-1697-1_1

 

It is clear to me that there are many more pillars in this matter. I would be keen to hear from others about their research or thoughts.

Best regards